Climate change will take all our expertise
Universal challenges demand cross-disciplinary focus, argues Dame Julia King, and a thematic approach to university teaching will be essential
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Finnish nanotech industry sets development targets
Brussels, 06 Sep 2006 Finnish companies and research institutes working in nanotechnology are currently drawing up a shared strategy on nanotechnology development targets. Tekes, the Finnish funding...
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ߣߣÊÓƵ World Academic Summit 2015 to take place in Melbourne
The ߣߣÊÓƵ World Academic Summit 2015 will take place in Melbourne, ߣߣÊÓƵ, in partnership with the University of Melbourne
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Birmingham academics on course to strike over grant income demands
About 80 per cent of UCU members prepared to take industrial action over expectations on external income and other issues
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EPSRC to help train quantum engineers in £15m project
A research council is to create a series of skills hubs in a £15 million project to train the next generation of quantum engineers
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Have ‘young academics’ been betrayed?
We need to stand up for early career researchers, says Catherine Fletcher
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Which universities are the most innovative?
Ellie Bothwell introduces our four ‘innovation indicators’ and reveals the strongest performers as we visualise a new ranking based on university-industry collaboration
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Aung San Suu Kyi inspires University of Oxford to help Myanmar
University academics answer an appeal for help from country's inspirational leader
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Ernest Kuh, 1928-2015
A leading expert on electronic circuit theory who spent his whole career at Berkeley has died
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Dynamic characters
The 100 Under 50 universities are marked by their energy, innovation and fearless approach to the future, write Phil Baty and Katie Duncan
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Commission to put forward new SME strategy
Brussels, 02 Aug 2005 Enterprise and Industry Commissioner Günter Verheugen has announced that he will launch a new strategy for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in the autumn. 'I will...
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THE World Academic Summit 2015 to take place in Melbourne
THE World Academic Summit 2015 to take place in Melbourne, it was announced today.
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UCL scholar shocked that government overlooked one great technology
Polina Bayvel of University College London says investment strategy missed the transformative potential of communications technologies
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Interview with Anna Dominiczak
The University of Glasgow vice-principal talks about her journey from studying under communism in Poland to the senior leadership team of a UK university
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Strategy 'ignores' HE role in skills provision
The government's skills strategy is disjointed and incomplete because it ignores higher education, the University Vocational Awards Council has said. The strategy fails to recognise the contribution...